Using the Navigation Window

The navigation window is a graphical representation of the pipeline structure used in ParaView. Items are added to the pipeline as the user loads data or performs filtering operations on the data. New filtering operations are performed on the current data set even if this data set is somewhere in the middle of the pipeline. If the data set is not at the end of the pipeline, the new filtering operation will cause the pipeline to branch. In the example shown, both elevation and extract edges filtering operations were performed on the ShrinkPD1 data set.

The name of the currently active data set is drawn in black and is centered in the navigation frame. The names of the data sets directly before and directly after this one in the pipeline are displayed in blue text. These names of these data sets are connected by arrows to the name of the current data set, indicating the filtering pipeline structure. Clicking on the data set names displayed in blue will 1) make that data set active and 2) bring up the user interface corresponding to that data set.

Note: Only data sets at the end of the pipeline can be removed from the pipeline. This is done by clicking the "Delete" button on the Parameters page associated with that data set.

See also the Select menu documentation.